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so he has a lot of opportunity to define mitt romney because mitt romney has been so vague. so i would say keep the debate on substance. take it to governor romney on issues like taxes and energy policy where there has been a lack of definition and really communicate to the american people that they can't take a risk on mitt romney. that if you don't know where he stands on taxes and you don't know where he stands on energy, you can't take a risk that he will do the right thing three months, four months from now. >> neera, people keep saying that romney isn't that good but he has shown that he's riz enrisen to the occasion. let me show you some of the clips. >> is he still the most anti-immigrant candidate? >> i would say of the four of us, yes. >> that's simply inexcusable. my father was born in mexico. my wife's father was born in wales. >> we discover to our shock that mitt romney owns shares of fannie m fannie mae and freddie mac. >> if he comes off aggressive, what should the president do? >> i actually think this is a real challenge for governor romney and if he falls
so he has a lot of opportunity to define mitt romney because mitt romney has been so vague. so i would say keep the debate on substance. take it to governor romney on issues like taxes and energy policy where there has been a lack of definition and really communicate to the american people that they can't take a risk on mitt romney. that if you don't know where he stands on taxes and you don't know where he stands on energy, you can't take a risk that he will do the right thing three months,...
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let mitt be mitt, how does that strike you? >> see, i don't buy this reverend, this whole idea of you know that his wife and his son swoop in and bring out the authentic. how do we note the mitt last wednesday was the real mitt, not the one we saw in the primaries, not the one tess convention not the one as governor of massachusetts. it's not clear to me letting mitt be mitt means anything that there is a real and authentic mitt. he changes his positions the way you and i change neckties. i think this is a way to dress i have a situation. he did this out of necessity very clearly he saw his campaign was going down the trajectory was headed in needed to try something new, and he got pretty lucky. he was able to do the etch a sketch at a point where the conservatives were desperate enough they'll let him get away with it. >> alisha there's a danger in him lets his hair down. we've soon some of that. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. corporations are people my friend. we can raise taxes -- of co
let mitt be mitt, how does that strike you? >> see, i don't buy this reverend, this whole idea of you know that his wife and his son swoop in and bring out the authentic. how do we note the mitt last wednesday was the real mitt, not the one we saw in the primaries, not the one tess convention not the one as governor of massachusetts. it's not clear to me letting mitt be mitt means anything that there is a real and authentic mitt. he changes his positions the way you and i change neckties....
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so you went up against mitt romney and prepared the ads against mitt romney. what kind of guy, how do we deal with this guy? what do you predict we're looking at tomorrow night? >> listen, i have to say mitt romney has come a long way from those debates in 1994. he's a much better debater today. much more seasoned than when he was beginning his political career so many years ago. he's been in 20 presidential debates in this election cycle against republicans, some very high stakes. so, i think we'll see a mitt romney who's totally prepared. they've spent more time preparing for this debate, i think, than any candidate in history. and in 1988 i was the campaign manager for lloyd benson, and i saw senator benson go from someone who wasn't that good to being a great debater on the night he met dan quayle. we have to expect he'll be prepared and give a very good performance. >> will he have to give specifics? what will independents want to hear? >> well, you know, that's his problem. i mean, listen, this guy cannot defend the math of his proposals because in the m
so you went up against mitt romney and prepared the ads against mitt romney. what kind of guy, how do we deal with this guy? what do you predict we're looking at tomorrow night? >> listen, i have to say mitt romney has come a long way from those debates in 1994. he's a much better debater today. much more seasoned than when he was beginning his political career so many years ago. he's been in 20 presidential debates in this election cycle against republicans, some very high stakes. so, i...
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things are moving, gist like mitt romney. suddenly he loves covering people with pre-existing conditions and suddenly mr. romney is ignoring the fact that his tax plan is a give away to the rich. the only problem, that's not the mr. romney who's running for president and this weekend newt gingrich, one of his top surrogates let the cat out of the bag. >> standing on the stage with you in arizona, this is what mitt romney said. number one, i said today we're going to cut taxes on everyone across the country by 20%, including the top 1%. mr. speaker, you mentioned that your opponent, mitt romney, had a problem with being dishonest and the primary of my question is, was he dishonest when he said that? >> i think it's clear he changed. >> clearly he's changed. another romney surrogate even admitted it. >> that's all you're seeing here. it's very typical. we we strong conservatives understand that. it's campaign strategy. >> it's typical. just campaign strategy. that's all you're seeing here. very typical. but here's the thing. th
things are moving, gist like mitt romney. suddenly he loves covering people with pre-existing conditions and suddenly mr. romney is ignoring the fact that his tax plan is a give away to the rich. the only problem, that's not the mr. romney who's running for president and this weekend newt gingrich, one of his top surrogates let the cat out of the bag. >> standing on the stage with you in arizona, this is what mitt romney said. number one, i said today we're going to cut taxes on everyone...
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i know you've done a cover story of mitt romney. have you been able to lock him down on specifics and why not? >> i did interview governor romney before the convention. i asked him what would be the deductions that you would take in order to pay for a 20% across the board tax cut? you know, there aren't that many options. there's the income tax deduction and philanthropic. at this point in the campaign, what would go wrong to say that? he's been saying all along, the democrats will pick me apart. again, what we've seen in the last two or three election cycles is that specificity does harm to candidates. obama lacks a lot of specifics about the things he's talking about as well. they are afraid of being specific. >> afraid of what? >> well, they are afraid that it will have them lose some votes, they will lose more votes than they will gain by being specific. i think that's the bottom line for both of them. >> let's deal with this. there is some positive economic news beginning to happen. september housing starts at 872,000 is the be
i know you've done a cover story of mitt romney. have you been able to lock him down on specifics and why not? >> i did interview governor romney before the convention. i asked him what would be the deductions that you would take in order to pay for a 20% across the board tax cut? you know, there aren't that many options. there's the income tax deduction and philanthropic. at this point in the campaign, what would go wrong to say that? he's been saying all along, the democrats will pick...
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mitt romney is his own pre-existing condition and voters have the cure on election day. joining me now is e.j. dionne, washington post columnist and msnbc contributor. thanks for being here, e.j. >> good to be with you. i'll try to remember what to say. >> well, i hope you do. romnesia sounds good to me. what do you think? >> well, two things. one, watching the president out there, he is so much better when it looks like he's enjoying himself and i always thought one of the problems at that first debate is he doesn't seem to be having fun. they finally found one word to capture what they have been trying to say the last few months because they kind of have given up on the flip-flop charge earlier to make the case that romney was really a right-wing candidate and they invested a lot of money showing people that and then at the first debate he completely transformed himself and ran as a kind of moderate and the conservatives were so worried that he was going to get absolutely clobbered that they were going to give him plenty of room to remake himself. today what you saw on
mitt romney is his own pre-existing condition and voters have the cure on election day. joining me now is e.j. dionne, washington post columnist and msnbc contributor. thanks for being here, e.j. >> good to be with you. i'll try to remember what to say. >> well, i hope you do. romnesia sounds good to me. what do you think? >> well, two things. one, watching the president out there, he is so much better when it looks like he's enjoying himself and i always thought one of the...
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but the real debate last night was between mitt romney and mitt romney. and being so contradictory, mr. romney opened a huge line of attack for the president. not just for 90 minutes, but for the 33 days until this election. and today in a blistering speech, the president took full advantage of the opportunity that romney's dishonest performance invited. >> when i got on to the stage, i met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be mitt romney. but it couldn't have been mitt romney. because the real mitt romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts that favor the wealthy, the fellow on stage last night said he didn't know anything about that. the real mitt romney said we don't need any more teachers in our classrooms. but don't boo, vote. but the fellow on stage last night, he loves teachers. can't get enough of them. the mitt romney we all know invested in companies that were called pioneers of outsourcing jobs to other countries. but the guy on stage last night, he said that he doesn't even know that t
but the real debate last night was between mitt romney and mitt romney. and being so contradictory, mr. romney opened a huge line of attack for the president. not just for 90 minutes, but for the 33 days until this election. and today in a blistering speech, the president took full advantage of the opportunity that romney's dishonest performance invited. >> when i got on to the stage, i met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be mitt romney. but it couldn't have been mitt romney....
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there's a debate between paul ryan and mitt romney. and you can see him saying, am i answering for romney in 2012 or for paul ryan in 2016 when he hopes to be running for president? he has a very different position. he was like, okay, i'll go with the party line and say what it is for now. you saw the same thing, for that matter, on social security and medicare where he said, this is my position but i'm not representing the position of the guy who has chosen me to run with him. so you could see that sort of internal debate within the republican party playing out as a subtheme last night. >> dana milbank and marg margie omero, thank you for your time this evening. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the fight for fairness. it's the fight we have to have. and privatize social security, that's what paul ryan said. the true extremism of what ryan! romney really want. >>> plus, fox news is in an up roar. he must be doing something right. the right wing freakout and why it shows that they don't have a leg or argument to stand on. you're watching "p
there's a debate between paul ryan and mitt romney. and you can see him saying, am i answering for romney in 2012 or for paul ryan in 2016 when he hopes to be running for president? he has a very different position. he was like, okay, i'll go with the party line and say what it is for now. you saw the same thing, for that matter, on social security and medicare where he said, this is my position but i'm not representing the position of the guy who has chosen me to run with him. so you could see...
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what is the reason for mitt romney's campaign? the unemployment rate is at its lowest level in nearly four years. that's not a real recovery? when president obama took office, we were bleeding private sector jobs. now we've added them for 30 straight months. that's more than 4 1/2 million jobs. mitt romney is just dancing as fast as he can to deny the truth. well, keep on dancing. denying the truth is just the new normal for this right wing nut gop. the president's birth certificate not real. poll numbers that show the president ahead, not real. and today these geniuses came up with a new fantasy. ready for this? they say the president is cooking the books. romney backer and former ge chairman jack welch kicked off the conspiracy tweeting, quote, unbelievable job numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't debate so change numbers. and laura igraham says, job numbers from labor secretary hilda solis are total pro obama. congressman allen west challenged the numbers, quote, chicago style politics is at work here. and, of co
what is the reason for mitt romney's campaign? the unemployment rate is at its lowest level in nearly four years. that's not a real recovery? when president obama took office, we were bleeding private sector jobs. now we've added them for 30 straight months. that's more than 4 1/2 million jobs. mitt romney is just dancing as fast as he can to deny the truth. well, keep on dancing. denying the truth is just the new normal for this right wing nut gop. the president's birth certificate not real....
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mitt romney has 48.9%. and according to 538, if the election were held today, the president would win re-election well 288 electoral votes. romney would get 250. it takes 270 votes to win the white house. a brand new ohio poll gives the president a five-point lead in that crucial state propelled by a two to one average in early voting. as of tonight, 6.5 million people have already voted in this election. with over a million voting in just the last 24 hours. we'll have much more on the early vote later on in this show. but we start with tonight's lead. hiding in plain sight. we know the republican party has been taken over by its far right wing and mitt romney has been dancing as fast as he can to present a moderate face to the country. he did it in the debates and he's trying to do it in the home stretch of this election. but i don't think it's going to work. that's because the extreme views of his party just keep poppinging up at the most inconvenient moments. today is the issue of abortion and the radica
mitt romney has 48.9%. and according to 538, if the election were held today, the president would win re-election well 288 electoral votes. romney would get 250. it takes 270 votes to win the white house. a brand new ohio poll gives the president a five-point lead in that crucial state propelled by a two to one average in early voting. as of tonight, 6.5 million people have already voted in this election. with over a million voting in just the last 24 hours. we'll have much more on the early...
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i did play mitt romney. i was chosen from binders of senators and i was privileged to be able to undertake that role but i'm not going to sit here before the debate and tell mitt romney and everybody else what he may or may not do. i will tell you this, the president is a enormously anxious to get to this debate. he is is ready for this debate because he's proud of his record in defending america, proud of keeping his promise to get out of iraq, to end that war, proud of changing the war in afghanistan so that we now know our troops will be coming home and doing it in a way that will be successful. i'm proud of the fact that he led on libya in a way that didn't put american troops on the ground but we succeeded in achieving our goals. he's restored our alliances throughout the world. he's actually helped to raise the currency rate in china more than has been raised in 19 previous years. >> yeah. >> so the president is on the right track. we don't want to go backwards to the neocon right-wing extreme policies
i did play mitt romney. i was chosen from binders of senators and i was privileged to be able to undertake that role but i'm not going to sit here before the debate and tell mitt romney and everybody else what he may or may not do. i will tell you this, the president is a enormously anxious to get to this debate. he is is ready for this debate because he's proud of his record in defending america, proud of keeping his promise to get out of iraq, to end that war, proud of changing the war in...
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we're talking about moderate mitt himself. >> it's not even moderate mitt. what is happening is he's basically -- you're right. he has his own words to be used against him but also disingenuous when senator coleman was saying what bush did for the supreme court. it's a gradual term. three supreme court justices are in their mid-70s, one in questionable health, you just need to appoint one to the supreme court and roe versus wade will be turned overnight. it's disingenuous for mitt to say that's not only true but coleman as a surrogate not to be forthcoming. >> david, i'll give you the last word. >> i think it's a mistake to call him moderate mitt because he is really say anything mitt. after that clip you just played, three weeks ago, he said, listen, i have no legislative agenda for getting rid of roe v. wade, even though he said he wanted to. then his campaign came out and said, that's not true. he supports getting rid of roe v. wade. it's saying anything at any point in time. you did a good job earlier in the show saying what was happening with china and
we're talking about moderate mitt himself. >> it's not even moderate mitt. what is happening is he's basically -- you're right. he has his own words to be used against him but also disingenuous when senator coleman was saying what bush did for the supreme court. it's a gradual term. three supreme court justices are in their mid-70s, one in questionable health, you just need to appoint one to the supreme court and roe versus wade will be turned overnight. it's disingenuous for mitt to say...
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dana, are zingers the answer for mitt romney? >> well, he has to beware the very perilous boomerang zinger. delivering in sort of the wrong way, then it looks canned, it looks contrived and that you're trying too hard. if he comes out and says, there you go again, you're going to hear a thumping sound and that's going to be me and everybody else pounding our heads on the table in the next room in the debate. he's wooden and stiff as it is. if he's seen as throwing down a line, that's much worse than skipping the zingers at all. i would just try to have an actual debate. >> michelle, it's pretty bad when you use a zinger and it doesn't even work but, to be honest, mitt romney's been talking and dealing with zingers for a long time. let me show you something about mitt romney and zingers going back a little bit. >> coming up with the best answers for the best zingers. and number two is being able to communicate to the people of america that you're a leader. i think i have the best ideas for our nation. i think i have some pretty go
dana, are zingers the answer for mitt romney? >> well, he has to beware the very perilous boomerang zinger. delivering in sort of the wrong way, then it looks canned, it looks contrived and that you're trying too hard. if he comes out and says, there you go again, you're going to hear a thumping sound and that's going to be me and everybody else pounding our heads on the table in the next room in the debate. he's wooden and stiff as it is. if he's seen as throwing down a line, that's much...
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he needs to call mitt romney on things he said. he took three positions on taxes and three positions on immigration, annual a week before the debate last time. i think the president will call him on that and then the president has to go ahead and say what he's going to do, because mitt romney has no plan for the economy, he has no plan for defense and he has no plan, period. the only plan he has is he wants to be president of the united states. president's been president for four years. he's got to say what he's going to do in the next four. >> now, does the president have to try to find middle ground between confronting mr. romney without looking like he's being antagonistic and, quote, nonpresidential? how does he find that delicate balance, governor? >> i think that's what he was trying to find last time and it apparently didn't work. i saw the debate and i thought he did fine. i know the media doesn't think so. he needs to go after romney. romney is questionably qualified for president. his positions on defense are very unusual
he needs to call mitt romney on things he said. he took three positions on taxes and three positions on immigration, annual a week before the debate last time. i think the president will call him on that and then the president has to go ahead and say what he's going to do, because mitt romney has no plan for the economy, he has no plan for defense and he has no plan, period. the only plan he has is he wants to be president of the united states. president's been president for four years. he's...
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can you really trust mitt romney? it's a point the president has been making on the campaign trail. >> there's no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust. trust matters. >> when you elect a president, you're counting on somebody that you can really trust. >> you know me. you know what i mean and i mean what i say. >> joining me is krystal ball and jonathan capeheart. thank you both for being here. >> krystal, it's close but the battleground favors the president, right? >> that's exactly right. the president still has a significant lead in ohio. if romney were to have another credible path through wisconsin, another state where the president continues to hold a lead. without winning either one of those two, it is very difficult, near impossible for romney to get there. so as much as the national polls have certainly tightened and in the real clear politics average romney has a slight lead in those key battleground states, the president still has many more paths to get to 270 than romney does. >> now, j
can you really trust mitt romney? it's a point the president has been making on the campaign trail. >> there's no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust. trust matters. >> when you elect a president, you're counting on somebody that you can really trust. >> you know me. you know what i mean and i mean what i say. >> joining me is krystal ball and jonathan capeheart. thank you both for being here. >> krystal, it's close but the battleground favors...
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mitt romney's mourdock mess. senate candidate richard mourdock's god intended rape comments are now threatening to undermine mitt romney's careful effort to appeal to voters as moderate mitt. desperate to hide the extreme republican positions on women's health, romney is just wishing and hoping this will all go away. but someone forgot to tell the press corps this morning in ohio. >> governor, do you wish senator mourdock would pull that ad? >> thank you. have a good day. >> you, too. >> that's me? >> have a great day. >> thank you. have a good day. but please don't ask be about god intending rape anymore. this is awkward for mitt romney after all at this hour romney's ad endorsing mourdock is still running in indiana and the campaign has no plans to pull support. and while governor romney tries to hide his own party is trying to keep the story out of the airways. he's in a close election and congressman mike pence running for governor in indiana and you know it's bad when governor haley barbour calls and then se
mitt romney's mourdock mess. senate candidate richard mourdock's god intended rape comments are now threatening to undermine mitt romney's careful effort to appeal to voters as moderate mitt. desperate to hide the extreme republican positions on women's health, romney is just wishing and hoping this will all go away. but someone forgot to tell the press corps this morning in ohio. >> governor, do you wish senator mourdock would pull that ad? >> thank you. have a good day. >>...
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moderate mitt might want to hear this. mother jones uncovered this video showing governor romney in a taped message he did for an unaccredited utah college. you'll never guess who governor romney was introducing as the very special guest of the night. >> i'm pleased to be with you at this event on behalf of the university. i'm there to introduce to you glenn beck. >> wow, glenn beck with the statesman and that's what he's saying about the weeks before the fund-raiser. >> overseas? obama is apologizing to the frenchy french for our arrogance. he's apologizing to the saudi arabia general king. i forgot, he's letting terrorists on to the streets. >> letting terrorists on to the streets. there's a statement. but the praise kept coming from governor romney. >> his approach is refreshing and he tries to focus on action, on actually making a difference on learning that principles on freedom and liberty, on reading and applying the wisdom of our nation's founders and to the challenges of today. >> his approach is refreshing? inter
moderate mitt might want to hear this. mother jones uncovered this video showing governor romney in a taped message he did for an unaccredited utah college. you'll never guess who governor romney was introducing as the very special guest of the night. >> i'm pleased to be with you at this event on behalf of the university. i'm there to introduce to you glenn beck. >> wow, glenn beck with the statesman and that's what he's saying about the weeks before the fund-raiser. >>...
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mitt romney himself, not his son, mitt romney himself made a birther certificate comment in august of this year. but he says he wasn't talking about president obama. let's listen. >> i was born at harper hospital. nobody has asked to see my birth certificate. they know that this is the place that we were born and raised. >> now, of course, he wasn't talking about president obama, right? >> there's only one way to read it and that's in the context of all of the birtherism and, again, just making an awkward joke, how can that exist within the context of birtherism? all of the instances where people say he's not american or muslim or kenyan, there's too many of these now to actually deny the proposition that this is quite deliberate. >> michelle, is everybody supposedly awkward? you have this pattern from the sons to the candidate to the candidates for senate. you have john sununu. how he went and made certain statements about the president not being really american or was unamerican. let me show you john sununu. >> i wish this president would learn how to be an american. he has no idea
mitt romney himself, not his son, mitt romney himself made a birther certificate comment in august of this year. but he says he wasn't talking about president obama. let's listen. >> i was born at harper hospital. nobody has asked to see my birth certificate. they know that this is the place that we were born and raised. >> now, of course, he wasn't talking about president obama, right? >> there's only one way to read it and that's in the context of all of the birtherism and,...